Obviously, they support those who share their own beliefs.

Movie industry types calling for the release of director Roman Polanski last year gave $34,000 to Obama's presidential campaign and the Democratic Party, FEC records show.

Polanski's arrest late last month by Swiss authorities in connection with a three-decade-old California underage sex case has sparked a vigorous national debate about sex, justice and extradition that - thus far - has yet to draw in the Obama administration.

But the most generous Democratic donor of the vocal pro-Polanski contingent, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, in an open letter called on "every US filmmaker to lobby against any move to bring Polanski back to the US, where he could face life in jail."

Weinstein last year gave $28,500 to the DNC and its White House Victory Fund, though he didn't contribute directly to Obama. In fact, he has been a big supporter of Obama's presidential rival-turned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose campaigns and committees have received $88,000 from Weinstein over the years.

Meanwhile, among the signatories of a movie-industry petition calling for "the immediate release of Roman Polanski," were a half-dozen Obama supporters who gave $15,500 to his presidential campaign:

Ariel Dorfman: $4,100

Martin Scorsese: $3,300

Larry Levine: $2,500

Darren Aronofsky: $2,300

Brett Ratner: $2,300

Richard Pena: $1,000

The petition, circulated by a French film group, isn't explicitly addressed to the U.S. government, but it does single out a function for "French artists and intellectuals" at the U.S. Embassy in France at which an embassy official spoke "in perfect French" about "the Franco-American friendship and recommended the development of cultural relations between our two countries."

"If only in the name of this friendship between our two countries, we demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski," the petition reads.

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